BMLA Landscape Architecture and the City of Fontana collaborated creating South Fontana Park to emphasize and elaborate the city's focus to go beyond the limits of a traditional playground. The new South Fontana Park playground delivers fun challenges and thrills with swings, climbers, stairs, slides, and play opportunities for all abilities.

The playground is designed with accessibility ramps and rubberized surfaces to provide access to kids of all abilities from toddlers to infants as well as parents and grandparents bringing children to the park for a fun time. Poured in place seat walls with gentle, undulating designs in the fencing enclose the playground in this open 18-acre site with multiple sport fields. Blue and green colors of fully accessible rubberized surfacing in concert with the colors of the playground equipment pay homage to the city of Fontana.

Numerous sensory panels and learning walls aspire cognitive stimulation, encourage exploration, and create curiosity. Free standing musical instruments elevate the games to enable kids to generate their own rhythms and nurture their interests in music play. The musical sounds introduce another element to spark interaction among kids.

 
The spinning units offer children the opportunity to work together as they learn to balance, coordinate, and cooperate. Ropes and rock-climbing walls inspire healthy bodies and minds by challenging children to exercise. A cozy dome provides an escape for kids needing time for themselves.

This fully inclusive playground offers opportunities for kids of all abilities. What was once a chicken egg farm at the intersection of Santa Ana Avenue and Cypress Avenue, is now a vibrant colorful playground for the community to make memories for generations to come.

Landscape Architect: BMLA Landscape Architecture
Civil Engineer: Armstrong & Brooks Consulting Engineers, Inc.
General Contractor: Bogh Engineering
Play Structures Manufacturer: Landscape Structures c/o Coast Recreation


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